Music - Five Bands Besides The Eagles Who Made Radical Changes In Musical Direction

I admit that I was a little unconvinced regarding acquiring Hotel California, the renowned album that forty years later is still considered the best by the Eagles. My daddy years before had actually been the first in our family to uncover the band, when he first heard "Peaceful Easy Feeling" on the neighborhood AM rock station.

The rock and roll fanatic that I was had actually desired none of the Eagles, that to my young ear totaled up to nothing greater than a country band. They also had a banjo gamer, for crying out loud.

Simply a few years later here I was buying Hotel California after listening to the rock and roll element that had actually been included in addition to guitarist Joe Walsh. When Dad listened to the title cut, he regreted on what a bad turn the music of the Eagles had taken.

Four years later I can appreciate both aspects of the band, its nation offerings as well as its rock. Those very early Bernie Leadon days created some wonderful tunes before co-founders Glen Frey and also Don Henley took their band in the extra electric instructions.

That transformation was not nearly as extreme as the adjustments carried out by other long operating teams, normally after separations and also enhancements of band participants. Below are five rock ensembles whose music altered dramatically over their lengthy tenures.

The Bee Gees.

In the late sixties the Australian brothers produced mellow hits such as "How Can You Mend a broken Heart?" and also "I Started a Joke" virtually ten years prior to they came to be pioneers in the Disco Era with tracks like "Stayin' Alive" and a host of others from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

Fleetwood Mac.

When bassist John McVie and drummer Mick Fleetwood established their band in the mid sixties, they were rooted in blues songs. Guitarist-singer leaders like Bob Welch as well as Peter Green gave the team a much more psychedelic noise on songs like" Oh Well" and "Hypnotized" before the late seventies additions of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks placed them at the very leading of the pop charts with the Rumours cd.

Jefferson Airplane (Starship).

Grace Slick and also gang played California psychedelic rock with sixties singles like "White Rabbit" as well as "Somebody To Love" before they years later on once again charted with milder hits such as "Runaway" and also "Miracles." By the time the Jefferson had been gone down from the name, the group was nearly indistinguishable on tunes like "We Built This City" and also "Nothing's Gon na Stop Us Now.".

REO Speedwagon.

Their self-title launching from the early seventies was a full blast rock album, full with jam sessions in the middle of lengthy tunes. Singer Terry Lutrell left and also was changed by Kevin Cronin before the second disk was completed, as well as after that the quintet would be progressively pop drivened.

Deep Purple.

Richie Blackmore and his fellow participants initially ended up being recognized for charting with cover versions of pop singers Neil Diamond (" Kentucky Woman") and also Joe South (" Hush"), however a couple of years later they assisted define the hard rock birth of the early seventies in addition to Led Zeppelin as well as Black Sabbath. Their album Machine Head, which has the well-known Classic "Smoke on the Water," is still thought about among the best acid rock cds in history.